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Development Team Interns

Jonathan, 13 - Development intern
Harvard Westlake, CA
Hobbies:  Building with LEGO's
Heroes: My dad and Achimedes
Quote: "Yar!"
Website
Jeronimo, 13 - Development intern
Colegio Las Hayas, Veracruz, Mexico
Hobbies: play computer games, walk, play volleyball, plants
Heroes: my dad
Quote: "Just do it."
Scratch Profile
Carolyn, 12 - Development intern
School: Lucille Brown, Virginia
Hobbies: Sailing, Lionel model trains, reading, history, science, cooking, skiing, Girl Scouts
Resume

Benjamin, 13 - Development intern
Favorite Book: A Wrinkle in Time
Heroes: Socrates, Einstein, Thomas Edison, Leonardo daVinci
Quote: "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates
PowerPoint Profile
Tom, 12 - Development intern
School: Sage School, Foxboro, MA
Hobbies: LEGO's, Computers, Snowmobiles 
Heroes: Hunter Scott, Mom, and Dad
Quote: "When life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own."
Website | PowerPoint Profile
Michael, 12 - Development intern
School:  Genito, VA
Hobbies: Football, computers, business
Movie Fav: Avatar
Band Fav: 3 Doors Down 
Website | PowerPoint Profile
Ayla, 11 - Development intern
School: Hopkins School, Hopkington, MA
Hobbies:  Singing, piano, acting, dancing, and soccer
Favorite Song: 'Don't Stop Believin'  
Website | PowerPoint Profile
Connor, 12 - Development intern
School: Charles River School, Dover, MA
Hobbies: Skating, building, programming, drawing, video games
Heroes:  Steve Jobs, Bill Gates
Quote: "When life gives you lemons, keep them 'cause  hey, free lemons!"
Website
Qin En, 17  - Development intern
School: Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore
Hobbies: Computer Gaming, Website Design, Events Planning, Presentations, Emceeing
Heroes: Michael Jackson, Tom Jones
Quote: "Train Hard, Fight Easy; Train Easy, Fight Hard"
Website 
Steven, 17 - Development intern
School: Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology, Duluth, Georgia
Hobbies: Robotics, Strategy Games, Music
Heroes: Richard Feynman, Tony Stark
Quote: "There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." Asimov
Website
2009 Interns
Kentaro, 14 - Development intern
Brookline High School, MA
Hobbies: Soccer, Napping
Heroes: Steve Jobs, John F. Kennedy
Quote: "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."  JFK
PowerPoint Profile
Nathaniel, 15 - Development intern
School: Rye High School, New York
Hobbies: Baseball, running, paintball and video games.
Heroes: Derek Jeter, The Stig, Muhammad Ali, and Lou Gehric
Quote: "It ain't over till it's over"  Yogi Bera
Resume
Ann, 16 - Development intern
School: St Cathrine's School, Virginia
Hobbies: Horseback Riding, Photography
Heroes: My Grandmother
Quote: "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~ Henry Ford
Website
AbdulAziz, 18 - Development intern
School:
Hobbies: Robotics, basketball, swimming, and melting stuff. 
Quote:  "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." ~ Jack Handley
Resume:
Thomas, 17 - Development intern
School: Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
Hobbies: Playing and watching soccer, Video gaming, Hanging out with friends
Heroes: Lance Armstrong, Martin Luther King
Quote: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." ~ Paul Dirac
Resume:
Daniel, 14 - Development intern
School: Cambridge Rindge and Latin
Hobbies: Playing video games, watching SiFi movies, hanging out with friends
Heroes: Terminator
Quote: "He's not dead, only mostly dead" ~ Princess Bride
Resume:
Giuliano, 13 - Development intern
School: Corwin-Russell School
Hobbies: video games, math, metal smithing, electronics
Heroes: Me
Quote: "Make it so" ~ Captain Picard
Resume:
Rahul, 12 - Development intern
School: Chenery School, Belmont, MA
Hobbies: Baseball, skiing, biking
Heroes: David Ortiz, My Dad, Tintin
Quote: "I'm an idealist, though I don't know where I'm going today"- Carl Sandberg
PowerPoint Profile
Testimonials:

Letter from parent of intern (2006)

Letter from parent of intern (2010)

Intern responses to survey:

I really liked programming the HTML. I would like to do more of it once I complete my skill-measuring game. I love editing websites.

I learned about what BIY does. I truly adore it. I also taught myself a few skills while working with Scratch.

I would definitely like to spend more time on programming. I've been wanting to become a programmer for some time.

Overall, Build-it-Yourself rules!

Build-It-Yourself is like First LEGO League on steroids

 


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